In 1912 Marcel Duchamp executed one of his most radical and significant early works, the oil Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Painted in a loosely Cubo-Futuris...

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November 10, 2016

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Duchamp turned the world’s understanding of art on its head with his invention of the ‘Readymade’ in 1913. Taking found objects, initially chosen specifically for their ordinariness or ‘visual indiffe...